When reading the history of their subject, it might seem that computer scientists develop a solution to a problem…
“Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn’t like writing programs, and so…I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.”
In the 1920s, a community of mathematicians believed that they were on the road to making the ultimate discovery that would far outdo…
Algorithms are one of the most important concepts in all of computer science. What they are and how they work are essential to any…
“By and large it is uniformly true in mathematics that there is a time lapse between a mathematical…
You can learn a lot about a field by taking a tour of the key moments in its history. All those momentous occasions—like when the field was first born, or how the earliest protagonists blazed a trail…